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Thelma & Louise (Erotic 90’s, Part 4)

One of the most controversial movies of the 1990s, Thelma & Louise pushed every hot button of the...

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Introducing This Little Light with Flea

Hosted by Flea, founding member and bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, This Little Light is a...

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“The actress everybody wants to fuck”: Theresa Russell and Sondra Locke (Erotic 90’s, Part 3)

An enigmatic sex symbol dating back to the 70s, Theresa Russell made a play for Hollywood stardom...

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Pretty Woman, Sleeping with the Enemy and Julia Roberts in the early 90s

The first blockbuster about sex of the 90s, Pretty Woman both reinvigorated Richard Gere’s...

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Prologue: Porn, Feminism & the folly of NC-17

Erotic 80s began with a prologue about the short lived heyday of the X rating, pornography, and...

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1989: sex, lies and videotape: Rob Lowe and James Spader (Erotic 80s Part 12)

American independent film is launched into the mainstream by Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies and...

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1988: Kevin Costner, Sean Young, No Way Out & Bull Durham (Erotic 80s Part 11)

The 1988 baseball blockbuster Bull Durham confirms Kevin Costner as the ultimate squeaky-clean,...

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1987: Fatal Attraction and Dirty Dancing (Erotic 80s Part 10)

The erotic thriller goes commercially mainstream with Fatal Attraction, a film which starts a...

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1986: 9 ½ Weeks, Mickey Rourke & Zalman King (Erotic 80s Part 9)

Billed as the hottest Hollywood film since Last Tango, 9 ½ Weeks was considered to have missed...

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1985: Fear Sex. Jagged Edge & AIDS (Erotic 80s Part 8)

Just as the AIDS-related death of Rock Hudson was finally forcing straight people – and Hollywood...

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1984: "Vioporn," Body Double and Crimes of Passion (Erotic 80s Part 7)

In a time of bombastic blockbusters (and Reagan’s re-election), two auteurs defy the norms by...

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1983: MTV Aesthetics, Flashdance and Risky Business (Erotic 80s Part 6)

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1982: Teen Sexploitation, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Porky's and The Blue Lagoon (Erotic 80s Part 5)

1982 saw the release of three hit high school-set comedies about sex: Porky’s, The Last American...

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1981: Neonoir, Body Heat and Postman Always Rings Twice (Erotic 80s Part 4)

The New Hollywood directors of the late 1960s and 70s were the first generation of Hollywood...

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1980: Richard Gere and American Gigolo (Erotic 80s Part 3)

One of the most aesthetically influential movies of the ‘80s, Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo...

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1979: Bo Derek and 10 (Erotic 80s Part 2)

The sleeper hit of late 1979 was Blake Edwards’s sex farce 10, a comedic vivisection of a male...

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Porno Chic and The Brief Heyday of X Ratings (Erotic 80s Part 1)

In 1968, the Production Code gave way to the ratings system, and the brief legitimacy of the...

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Sammy and Dino Episode 9: Is That All There Is?

Desperate to be seen as cool and not a relic of an earlier age in 70s America, Sammy gets into...

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Sammy and Dino Episode 8: Generation Gap

In the mid-1960s, 47 year-old Dean Martin proves he's still got it by knocking the Beatles off...

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Sammy and Dino Episode 7: Yes I Can

Released in 1965, Sammy Davis Jr.'s autobiography became an instant classic, one of the most...

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